Lamiya Aji Bashar

Lamiya Aji Bashar (1998-) was an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist.

Biography
Lamiya Aji Bashar was born in Kocho, Sinjar, northern Iraq in 1998, and she was raised in the Yazidi faith. In August 2014, she survived the massacre of Kocho's villagers by the Islamic State, only to be enslaved alongside Nadia Murad and the other young women of the village. Bashar was forced into sexual slavery, and she was also forced to make suicide vests. In April 2016, she managed to escape from captivity with the help of a local family and some smugglers, although she was injured by a landmine explosion, badly scarring her face. She received medical care after arriving in Germany, and Bashar and Murad were both awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on 29 October 2016.